Top Albums of 1961
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Abbey Lincoln |
Straight Ahead |
Vocal Jazz
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Art Blakey |
Mosaic |
Hard Bop
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20 |
2658 |
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers |
A Night in Tunisia |
Hard Bop
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1 |
495 |
Bill Evans |
Sunday at the Village Vanguard |
Cool Jazz
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Bill Evans |
Explorations |
Cool Jazz
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4 |
656 |
Bobby Bland |
Two Steps from the Blues |
Rhythm & Blues
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26 |
2900 |
Booker Little |
Out Front |
Hard Bop
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Cecil Taylor |
The World of Cecil Taylor/Air |
Free Jazz
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Charles Mingus |
Pre-Bird/Mingus Revisited |
Third Stream
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Dexter Gordon |
Doin' Allright |
Hard Bop
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Dizzy Gillespie |
Carnegie Hall Concert |
Jazz
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Eddie Jefferson |
The Jazz Singer |
Vocal Jazz
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17 |
2242 |
Eric Dolphy |
At the Five Spot, Vol. 1 |
Avant-Garde Jazz,
Post-Bop
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Freddie Hubbard |
Ready for Freddie |
Hard Bop
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Freddie Hubbard |
Goin' Up |
Hard Bop
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25 |
2899 |
Freddie King |
Let's Hide Away and Dance Away with Freddie King |
Electric Texas Blues
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19 |
2521 |
George Russell |
Ezz-Thetics |
Avant-Garde Jazz,
Modal Jazz
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8 |
1102 |
Gil Evans |
Out of the Cool |
Big Band,
Cool Jazz
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Grant Green |
Green Street |
Hard Bop
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Helen Humes |
Swingin' with Humes |
Jazz
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Henry Mancini |
Breakfast at Tiffany's |
Film Score,
Lounge
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Ike Quebec |
Blue and Sentimental |
Hard Bop
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J. J. Johnson & Kai Winding |
The Great Kai & J. J. |
Jazz
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Jackie McLean |
Bluesnik |
Hard Bop
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14 |
1904 |
Jimmy Giuffre 3 |
Thesis/1961 |
Cool Jazz,
Third Stream
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16 |
2135 |
Jimmy Giuffre 3 |
Fusion/1961 |
Cool Jazz,
Third Stream
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21 |
2731 |
Jimmy Reed |
Jimmy Reed at Carnegie Hall |
Chicago Blues
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Joan Baez |
Joan Baez, Vol. 2 |
Folk Revival
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5 |
686 |
John Coltrane |
My Favorite Things |
Modal Jazz,
Post-Bop
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22 |
2747 |
John Coltrane |
Olé Coltrane |
Modal Jazz
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23 |
2834 |
John Coltrane |
Africa/Brass |
Hard Bop,
Modal Jazz,
Post-Bop
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John Coltrane |
Coltrane Jazz |
Hard Bop
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9 |
1146 |
Judy Garland |
Judy at Carnegie Hall |
Standards
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24 |
2862 |
Lee Konitz |
Motion |
Cool Jazz
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Mark Murphy |
Rah |
Vocal Jazz
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6 |
1026 |
Max Roach |
We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite |
Avant-Garde Jazz
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12 |
1877 |
Miles Davis |
Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet |
Hard Bop
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Miles Davis |
In Person Friday Night at the Black Hawk, San Francisco Vol. 1 |
Hard Bop
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Miles Davis |
In Person Saturday Night at the Black Hawk, San Francisco Vol. 2 |
Jazz
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Miles Davis |
Someday My Prince Will Come |
Modal Jazz
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Milt Jackson and John Coltrane |
Bags & Trane |
Bebop,
Cool Jazz
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3 |
642 |
Oliver Nelson |
The Blues and the Abstract Truth |
Hard Bop
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2 |
527 |
Ornette Coleman |
Free Jazz |
Free Jazz
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13 |
1880 |
Ornette Coleman |
This Is Our Music |
Avant-Garde Jazz
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Phineas Newborn Jr. |
A World of Piano! |
Hard Bop
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18 |
2404 |
Ray Charles |
Genius + Soul = Jazz |
Rhythm & Blues,
Soul Jazz
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Ray Charles and Betty Carter |
Ray Charles and Betty Carter |
Standards,
Vocal Jazz
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Sarah Vaughan |
After Hours |
Vocal Jazz
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Shelly Manne and His Men |
At the Manne-Hole, Vol. 1 |
Jazz
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15 |
2020 |
Stan Getz |
Focus |
Avant-Garde Jazz,
Cool Jazz
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Stan Kenton |
Kenton's West Side Story |
Big Band
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11 |
1869 |
The Original Soundtrack |
West Side Story |
Film Soundtrack,
Show Tunes
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10 |
1655 |
The Shadows |
The Shadows |
Surf Rock
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7 |
1084 |
Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane |
Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane |
Hard Bop
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Yusef Lateef |
Eastern Sounds |
Hard Bop
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